2 Esdras 9:14,15. According to an angel of God:

"The lost [will] outnumber the saved
    as a wave exceeds a drop of water". ⁽¹⁾
Because this world was for the sake of the just. ⁽²⁾
       So before the new, there is to be a great slaughter.

Scriptures like these, contemptuous men decided to omit,
    with the rest of the apocrypha, as part of bible canon. ⁽³⁾
Although its few scribal errors they could have corrected,
    this Divinely inspired word they choose to abandon.

The Lord has measured ⁽⁴⁾ those of his spiritual house
    by their self-sacrificing righteous words and deeds.
But in his new world he will shepherd out disobedience
    anew, with a discipline likened to iron, not with reeds.

In a world where: whoever falls short of a hundred years
    before he dies, shall be despised. ⁽⁵⁾
Where: "They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,
    says the Lord." ⁽⁶⁾ Where: his guiding rod will be realized.